Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon escaping the Terminus in the upcoming season of The Walking Dead.The Walking Dead/Twitter

AMC released the first trailer of the popular zombie horror series which showed Rick, Daryl and others escaping the Terminus but there are speculations regarding some major deaths in the upcoming season.

AMC Studios, recently released a group picture of The Walking Dead cast but to everyone's amusement Daryl Dixon was missing from it, sending shock waves among fans that he may be dead during the show's mid-season.

The post-apocalyptic zombie horror drama is based on the survival story of Rick Grimes and his son along with the next important character Daryl, who has an equal fan following as that of Rick.

Previously in June, show creator Robert Kirkman also told Entertainment weekly that Daryl dies in the fifth season.

The cast and crew have kept the filming of the show a tight secret so far and teased the premiere episode to have the biggest action sequences ever in the series.

"I think that this first episode is the strongest, most complete episode that we've done. It's full of action, the biggest action sequence that we've ever attempted. But it's also got one of the most incredible narrative scripts, and one of the coolest after credits coda," Andrew Lincoln told Kirkman at the Fox International Breakfast.

The Walking Dead Season 5 will be broadly based on the theme 'survival' and will premiere on AMC on October 12.